Buck ( craps )


A round plastic object which is black on the one side and white on the other.
When on the white side and in a place box number, it designates that a shoot is in progress and that that number is the point. Also disk.

Buck ( poker )


1) A marker used in games with a house dealer to indicate the deal position. Once upon a time, an actual buck knife
was used as the marker, hence the name. Usually found now as part of the phrase pass the buck, that is,
refuse to deal when it is one's turn to deal, passing the deck instead to the next player to the left.
The phrase has passed into general usage meaning shift responsibility to someone else, and has found a
place in most collections of famous quotations and sayings with Harry Truman's well-known slogan, "The buck stops here."

2) Go up against, in the sense of an inferior hand trying to beat an obviously better hand.
For example, a player who has, in seven-card stud, only a pair of jacks, playing against someone
with an exposed pair of aces, is said to be in the process of bucking the aces. The term is also found as part of the phrase buck the odds.


Buck (general terms ) - A $100 wager.